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  • Federal government to toughen information security

    The scope of a closely watched survey of computer crime and security in Australia has been expanded with critical infrastructure providers in particular urged by the Attorney-General's Department to participate.

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    The Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn, has acknowledged that the e-government strategy released last week is a "bold plan", and encouraged private sector providers to come forward with skills or products to enable it to be implemented.

  • Users are the security problem: DSD

    Educating staff about IT security risks and measures they should take to avoid compromising system integrity is a critical enterprise activity, according to a senior federal government security official.

  • New government data says no AU ICT skills shortage

    The federal Department of Employment and Workplace Relations' latest data on demand for ICT skills will be released early next week, and officials say the new data finds that, overall, there is no shortage of ICT skills in Australia.

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    Optus has appointed a new managing director for its Optus Business division, promoting John Simon as the man to lead its growing services arm.

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    Could you believe in Steve?

    For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.

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    While UK businesses worry that Linux lacks the technical support options to make it an enterprise player, Australian businesses believe the open source operating system already enjoys the robust support they need to put it to work.

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    Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?

  • Lighting the murky depths of multicore pricing

    Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.

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  • How open is the new Office?

    Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.

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  • Meet the Windows XPs

    Now there's a Microsoft's Windows XP flavour for every PC--standard desktops, tablet PCs, and Media Center desktops. We weigh in on their worth.

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